The Nobel Committee has often been accused of overlooking non-western achievements. As this year's Nobel prize winners are unveiled, we explore the age-old question: Is the prestigious prize too Eurocentric?

Gravitas: Nobel Prize Committee Overlooking Non-Western Achievements?

The first of the Nobel prizes has been announced and this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has gone to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA better known as mRNA. Their work enabled potent COVID vaccines to be made in less than a year.

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine

"For their findings about nucleoside base alterations that enabled the production of efficient mRNA vaccines against COVID-19," Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the award." The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be given, as determined by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet today.

Nobel prize for medicine announced, Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman win 2023 Nobel medicine prize

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Gravitas: Nobel Prize Committee Overlooking Non-Western Achievements?

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine

Nobel prize for medicine announced, Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman win 2023 Nobel medicine prize